Buster Keaton

In Hollywood, any success brings a lot of imitators. So we can imagine this scene taking place right now at one of the big movie studios: The studio head summons his top flunky into his office. "Flunky," the studio head says, "suspend all our current projects. We're taking this studio in a different direction." "Wow, chief," says the flunky. "What's that?" "It's new, it's different, it's revolutionary. Silent movies." "Silent movies?" "Sure, didn't you see what happened at the Oscars? A black-and-white, silent movie won the Best Picture award. If that's what people will go for these days,...

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